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Getting the most out of the ‘Funding Winning Experience’

Getting the most out of the ‘Funding Winning Experience’. AESOP Young Academic Network Roundtable Friday 17 th July, Liverpool Paul Benneworth, CHEPS, University of Twente. Outline. The harshness of rejection Why do proposals get funded? What can you do to get your proposal funded?

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Getting the most out of the ‘Funding Winning Experience’

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  1. Getting the most out of the ‘Funding Winning Experience’ AESOP Young Academic Network Roundtable Friday 17th July, Liverpool Paul Benneworth, CHEPS, University of Twente

  2. Outline • The harshness of rejection • Why do proposals get funded? • What can you do to get your proposal funded? • What to do with a proposal that doesn’t get funded?

  3. The first post-doctoral grant application • Ph.D. students progress through a ‘culture of success’ • Publishing is ‘formative’ – review and improvement • Funding bids are ‘summative’ – review and feedback – sometimes… • How to cope with the issues this raises?

  4. Some disheartening feedback “The pre-selection committee looked very closely at your submission. It was an interesting submission, but in our very heavy competition, it scored in comparison to the other proposals relatively lower against the evaluation criterion/ criteria:- • Originality and potential contribution to science • Contribution to theory, methods, design or knowledge • Research construction and methods • Defining, and fleshing out the research questions and problem contextualisation • Appropriateness of the method given the question asked.”

  5. Why do you want a research project? • Autonomy and recognition in work sphere • Opportunity to answer interesting question • Input to academic writing • Chance to build networks • Funding to go to conferences

  6. The academic trajectory

  7. Classic model of ‘research projects’

  8. You hit the brick wall…

  9. So where did the proposal come from?

  10. And how to move forward? • Use it to apply for some funding to go to an interesting conference and meet new people • Find another body that you can apply to – and improve on the referee’s comments • Turn it into a new journal article and do some new reading to move it forward • Accept that you’ve reached a blind alley and explore an alternative trajectory. • Write a book…

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